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God loves us as we are…not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be. –Brennan Manning Brennan Manning
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God loves us as we are…not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be. –Brennan Manning Brennan Manning
Don’t try to understand it. You won’t succeed. Don’t try to see it. You can’t. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center. Brennan Manning
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor’s house, what’s on sale this week, our clothes or someone else’s, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can’t stop … Read more
The god who exacts the last drop of blood from his Son so that his just anger, evoked by sin, may be appeased, is not the God revealed by and in Jesus Christ. And if he is not the God of Jesus, he does not exist. Brennan Manning
Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God’s power. We stutter and stammer about God’s holiness. We tremble before God’s majesty… and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God’s love. Brennan Manning
Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion Brennan Manning
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ. Brennan Manning
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.- Brennan Manning
Shame–what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down. Brennan Manning
Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love. Brennan Manning